In our recent study describing the motor profiles of 247 5-year-old children in the South Australian CP population, 93.2% of children were coded as primarily spastic-type; 3.2% as dyskinetic (dystonia or athetosis) and 3.6% as ataxic.1 However this study also found that when children were assessed face-to-face by a group of expert paediatricians, 19.4% of the population was noted on observation alone to have abnormal movements, which included dyskinesias. This increased with motor severity by Gross Motor Functional Classification System (GMFCS) from 7% (level I) to 45% (level V). We questioned whether in fact recognition of some dyskinesias are "masked" by the presence of spasticity, according to conventional clinical descriptors. We advocated for the development of a classification system that describes spasticity and dystonia in parallel, to aid the clinician in prescribing treatment strategies. To date no published study has systematically examined for the prevalence of abnormal movements in CP populations, beyond determining the dominant form of tone abnormality in a mutually exclusive fashion, e.g. spasticity or dystonia. Our study proposes a mutually inclusive format using a recently validated tool for the recognition of dystonia and other abnormal movements.